President Evo Morales (Aymara) of Bolivia was awarded an honorary doctorate by an Argentine university in mid-December for his work on indigenous rights, land distribution and eradication of illiteracy (UNESCO declared the country illiteracy-free in July of last year) among other things.
The National University of Entre Rios (NUER) gave Morales ...

The words of President Cristina Fernandez of Argentina, very valuable to provide much needed diversity of views in the international debates on global crises such a terrorism, were shrouded and dismissed in different ways by media around the world.
In her own country, the whole attention was turned away from the content of her message, mocking her...

Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s largest and most influential human rights organizations, is facing an unusual amount of public criticism. Two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Mairead Maguire, and a group of over 100 scholars have written an open letter criticizing what they describe as a revolving door with the U.S. ...